WHO published its World health statistics report 2025, revealing the deeper health impacts caused by the COVID-19 pandemic on loss of lives, longevity and overall health and well-being. In just two years, between 2019 and 2021, global life expectancy fell by 1.8 years—the largest drop in recent history— reversing a …
Juba To interrupt the transmission of the measles virus, the Ministry of Health for South Sudan, with support from the World Health Organization, UNICEF and other partners, have launched reactive measles campaigns to immunize children in affected locations and provide them with vitamin A supplementation. To date, more than 310 …
Despite vaccination available for some of the oldest diseases in the country, ever increasing cases of this crop up every year. In its list of top ten 'global threats to public health', the World Health Organisation has listed vaccine hesitancy – the resistance towards vaccination as one of the top …
In the midst of elections, environmentalists have flagged concerns over "patchy recognition of the problem of unhealthy air" by MPs over the past five years, particularly those representing the cities and towns that figure in WHOs list of most polluted cities. The environmentalists say elected representatives must take "proactive steps" …
While cases have declined by over 80% (from 2.03 million cases in 2000 to 0.39 million in 2018), deaths caused by malaria also went from 932 in 2000 to 85 in 2018 (over 90%) The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) on Wednesday officially unveiled the 'Malaria Elimination Research Alliance' …
The BJP's promise of turning NCAP into a 'mission', which means institutionalising it better and increasing accountability at the Centre, is not enough because the NCAP has several limitations Measures that prioritise development can also lead to air-quality improvements in India, even if they are not primarily targeted at air …
Metropolitan cities such as Mumbai have the maximum share of drug-resistant TB cases, according to the Central TB Division’s India TB Report 2018. TB is today the world’s foremost infectious disease killer, with the WHO recognising it as a “global health crises”. As per the Global TB report 2017, the …
Even as India is looking towards e-health as one of the health solutions for the people in the remote areas where medical care is yet to reach, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has cautioned that in such health setups, consultations should be conducted by qualified health workers and that the …
12 cases reported this month The Health Department has issued an alert against H1N1 (Influenza) in Kozhikode district in view of the high incidence of the viral infection in the past three-and-a-half months. District Medical Officer V. Jayasree said in a release on Wednesday that 12 cases had been reported …
Recently, the BBMP Additional Commissioner for public health, D Randeep, launched a network of 40 air quality monitoring devices that have been installed across the city. This has been seen as a positive move in controlling the city’s increasing air pollution when it comes to accountability with facts. With construction …
The study also noted that lack of access to antibiotics kills more people than antibiotic resistance. Report highlights lack of access to life-saving drugs India has a shortage of an estimated 600,000 doctors and 2 million nurses, say scientists who found that the lack of staff who are properly trained …
The Seasonal Influence Vaccination Programme for 2019 was officially launched on 11 April 2019 by Dr Hon. Anwar Husnoo, Minister of Health and Quality of Life at Dr. Hyderkhan Mediclinic in Plaine-Verte, Mauritius. The event was attended by the general population and other relevant personalities including Dr. Laurent Musango, WHO …
A study by the University of Southampton shows that several low-and middle-income countries, especially in Africa, need more effective child vaccination strategies to eliminate the threat from vaccine-preventable diseases. Geographers from the University's WorldPop group found diphtheria, tetanus and whooping cough (pertussis) vaccination levels in Nigeria, Democratic Republic of the …
Traffic-related pollution caused asthma among 350,000 children in India in 2015, second only to China, according to a Lancet study unveiled Thursday that analysed 194 countries and 125 major cities worldwide. The first global estimates of their kind published in The Lancet Planetary Health journal suggest that more than one …
Tanzania on Thursday confirmed an outbreak of dengue fever, saying the business capital, Dar es Salaam, has reported 252 cases. Deputy Minister for Health Faustine Ndungulile confirmed that there was an outbreak of dengue fever in Dar es Salaam and the Indian Ocean coastal region of Tanga, where there were …
Tanzania's main city Dar es Salaam did not have traffic signs, speed bumps or footpaths outside many schools, although children walking to class were being hit by cars on a regular basis. So SARSAI, a small non-profit programme in Africa, got the government's permission to install these features itself, reducing …
Mumbai: In good news for tuberculosis patients, drug major Johnson & Johnson is providing India with a fresh grant of 10,000 courses of the life-saving drug bedaquiline, free of cost this year. The development, ending months of speculation on the availability of the drug, is significant as it is expected …
Varanasi, from where PM Modi had won in 2014, is witnessing a rise in the number of people suffering from allergies and respiratory problems due to a "lot" of construction in the city, the report said. The air quality in Varanasi, Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Lok Sabha constituency, is ranked …
A Ghana-based start-up has received $1.5 million from Ebay billionaire Jeff Skoll to support its work in changing Africa's pharmaceutical industry to make medicines more affordable. MPharma is one of five social businesses to receive awards from the Skoll Foundation at this week's Skoll World Forum, Britain's leading event for …
According to World Health Organisation (WHO) TB is the ninth leading cause of death worldwide and the leading cause from a single infectious agent, ranking above HIV/AIDS. Scientists are inventing a new vaccine in the management of Tuberculosis (TB) which they say will be effective in the resistance of the …
No fewer than 1.13 million children are expected to be vaccinated against polio in the ongoing four-day house-to-house immunisation exercise in Adamawa. The Information Officer of the State Ministry of Health, Alhaji Mohammed Abubakar, made this known on Monday in Yola. Abubakar said the four-day exercise under Supplementary Immunisation Plus …
